DOlson Posted November 7, 2004 Report Share Posted November 7, 2004 If you're into compiling kernels, I recommend you grab the nitro patchset from http://www.sepi.be/nitro.php and patch a kernel with them. Seriously, I had doubts that this could help much, but I can now actually play the Doom 3 demo and I'm told that UT2004 plays smoothly as well. And I don't have very advanced hardware, and Doom 3 was very very choppy before I patched with this. You do need to know what you're doing as far as kernels go, but it's really quite worth it. This was a patch that came out of the Gentoo community I believe, but I'm running it on Debian just fine (only one small issue with XMMS sometimes skipping, but I'm just using RhythmBox until I resolve it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted November 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 The XMMS/BMP issues are caused by the ck patches, which are included as a part of the nitro patches. I haven't found a solution yet, but gaming improves a lot using these patches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted November 8, 2004 Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 This is great, can't wait to try it this afternoon! Doom 3 is also very choppy for me. I hate to have to say this: but it ran better in Cedega than it does natively, which is POOR AFAIK. So I'll give these a go when I finally manage to leave work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOlson Posted November 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted November 8, 2004 Let me know how it goes. It sure felt smoother to me, and I don't think it's a placebo effect... Try out UT2K3/UT2K4 too, if you have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diabolix Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 it definitely is not the placebo effect, i ran the time demo, originally 32 fps (high detail, 1024x746), after i switched back to OSS rather than ALSA, upgraded to nitro 2.6.8.1 (from 2.4.1) it went up to 45 fps. an incredible difference. i switched to oss because doom 3 had issues with my alsa modules after using the nitro patch. so rather than emulate oss, i just switched back. it seems like everything runs smoother in oss anyways. and no problems with xmms. to do a comparison, i did a fresh install of windows xp and it only did 42. its possible for me to get it up do 60 with optimizing my graphix card and disabling services, but MS never told me to do that, so i don't think that it would be fair to. MS wants everything to be left as is and work out of box, so i shouldn't do them the honor of optimizing my install. and is it just me, or does doom 3 look better in linux? probably because i don't have the option of turning down video quality in nvidia-settings like it gave me when i played it in windows, maybe its because i want linux to be better. but it just feels better playing it in linux, another step in the downfall of the empire! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 I've been using these too for a while and the performance increase is awesome. I dont use xmms more nor bmp, ive been using mpd & mpc www.musicpd.org the mpd, plays the music and maintains a library, of everything and your frontend of choice controls it. I prefer gmpc. The way it maintains playlists and the library is awesome. iphitus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 At the moment, the nitro kernel site is dead. In the meantime try using the ck patchset, its where nitro gets all the stuff that makes it fast. http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ Have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMorden Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 You can still find the nitro patch for the 2.6.10 kernel here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=276468 If enough people on this board care about this thing, maybe the mods might see fit to host it here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Is this patchset only for games, or will it help with multimedia as well? (I'm thinking mainly about Xine) Yves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 (edited) i agree with the above (i use linux....who cares which distro.). however, on my machine P4 3 GHz intel I875 chipset 1024 Mb ram soundblaster live 80 Gb Maxtor hdd 40 Gb Seagate nvidia MX4000 (ugh) Mandriva LE2005 k2.6.11-12 Doom3 for Linux runs MUCH better!! Thank You idsoftware p.s. this may be slightly off topic...sorry Edited October 1, 2005 by dlm250r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlm250r Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 (edited) FOUND!! the nitro patches for 2.6.13 are now on the front page in the news http://www.sepi.be/ also under Category -nitro-sources Edited October 2, 2005 by dlm250r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artificial Intelligence Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jas Posted October 25, 2006 Report Share Posted October 25, 2006 are there patches for the 2.6.17 kernel? and does this boost performance on games you run in cedega? or is it just for native games.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zibi1981 Posted January 21, 2008 Report Share Posted January 21, 2008 And what about the up-coming 2.6.24 kernel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 You are a bit late... the Nitro patchset is dead since 2+ years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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